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La Via Campesina is the international movement
which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers,
landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural
workers from around the world. It defends small-scale sustainable agriculture
as a way to promote social justice and dignity. It strongly opposes corporate
driven agriculture and transnational companies that are destroying people and
nature.
WOMEN’S DECLARATION FOR FOOD
SOVEREIGNTY, AGAINST VIOLENCE & AGRIBUSINESS
ECVC Press Release: March 8th -
International Women’s Day
This 8th of March,
International Women’s Day, we, the women of the European Coordination Via
Campesina (ECVC), the historical creators of life, guardians of traditional
seeds, caretakers of food and landscape diversity, vessels for passing on
knowledge, raise our voices to say:
§ NO to
patriarchy.
§ NO to
neoliberal policies.
§ NO to
agribusiness, responsible for exiling thousands of male and female peasants
from our lands, to the industrialization of agriculture and climate change.
§ NO to the
so-called free trade agreements such as CETA or TTIP, with completely obscure
and antidemocratic procedures, whose only goal is to obtain the maximum amount
of profits for multinational corporations at the expense of citizens’ rights
(right to food, health, social equity, labor rights, public policies, a natural
environment…).
§ NO to
land-grabbing and taking over natural resources, no in Europe or anywhere else
in the world.
§ NO to
working condition precariousness.
§ NO to
violence and oppression.
We,
The Women Peasants, Declare:
§ YES to
guaranteeing our sexual and reproductive rights, and respect for all gender
identities.
§ YES to the
visibility of the role of female peasants.
§ YES to our
necessary legal recognition in the political, social and professional spheres
(social security contributions, access to land and ownership of our farmlands,
migrant workers and workers without land rights, the necessary social
protection…).
§ YES to
societies joint responsibility in the ensemble of care and duties within the
reproductive sphere.
§ YES to all
the women who struggle every day for a more sustainable and fair rural world.
§ YES to
Food Sovereignty and Popular Peasant Feminism.
LONG LIVE THE FIGHT FOR
PEASANTS, LONG LIVE THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN LET US GLOBALIZE THE STRUGGLE! LET’S
GLOBALIZE HOPE!
Spokesperson: Inmaculada
Idanez Vargas